5 prompts to teach Claude to write exactly like you
TL;DR
These five prompts study your real writing, interview you about how you want to sound, and save it all into a voice.md file Claude reads before writing anything as you. About 15 minutes, and you never repeat the setup.
Copy each prompt, fill in the [brackets], and paste them in order. You'll need 3-5 real things you've written — a post, an email, a caption. The variety matters more than the volume.
Feed Claude your real writing
I'm going to paste [3-5] things I actually wrote, from different places if possible, a post, an email, a caption: [paste them]. Study how I write. Sentence length, words I overuse, how I open, how I close, what I never say. Then show me: write one paragraph about [any topic], two ways, one paragraph each. Version 1: generic AI. Version 2: me. Make the difference obvious.Let Claude interview you
Now interview me. Ask me 5 short questions, one at a time, and wait for my answer before the next one: how I want to sound, and who I'm talking to.Save your voice to voice.md
Write all of this into a file in this folder called voice.md: my rules, my banned words, my rhythm, real examples of my lines. Save it so we never have to do this again.Test it and grade it against the rules
Test it. Write a [post/email] about [a topic you'd actually post about] using voice.md. Then grade it against each rule in voice.md, one by one: what would I change? Fix it and show me both versions.Make it permanent
From now on, everything you write for me runs through voice.md first. If I paste something that doesn't sound like me, flag the exact lines and rewrite only those. Then make this permanent: add one line to my CLAUDE.md file, and create that file if it doesn't exist, saying you always read voice.md before writing as me.Common questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You paste writing you've already done and answer five questions. Claude creates and saves the voice.md file itself.
Where do I paste these?
These work in Claude Code or the regular Claude app. Claude Code is the better home because prompts 3 and 5 save files that persist between sessions — in the app you'd re-paste your voice rules each time.
How many writing samples do I need?
Three to five, ideally from different places — a post, an email, a caption. Variety shows Claude your range; ten samples from one platform teach it less than three from three.
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